The Ingredients of TeaAt one point, the people who know more than I do rather politely suggested that I should stop drinking coffee. I have tried this before; I had met with some success, but I did not enjoy it. They suggested tea. I had tried that before, too, but I had not enjoyed that, either.
I was comfortable with the morning violence of coffee: the grumbling step into the kitchen, the bleary poking of the machine. I looked forward to the first strong sip, sending a welcome jolt down the throat and sometimes burning the tongue.
(It has turned out that eating breakfast is a side effect of tea.)
Tea is not like that. Tea has standards. One needs to pay attention to the thermometer for tea (one needs a thermometer!). Half of the trick to tea is learning how to make tea well. The other half is learning to pay attention so the thing can be done, even in the early hours of the morning.
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